Investigate the World: Produce New Global Knowledge
Generate and explain the personal and societal significance of locally, regionally, or globally focused researchable topics or questions.
Investigate approaches and actions that have been taken to address this question in the past, analyze the context in which they occurred, and evaluate proposed or enacted solutions.
Use a variety of international sources, media, methods, and languages to identify, collect and analyze the knowledge and evidence required to answer a specific research question.
Develop an argument/position based on compelling evidence that considers multiple perspectives and draws defensible conclusions.
Tues., Aug. 25: Shift Happens
Zoom activity (wordless picture book by Istvan Banyai)
choose a Zoom card that represents your time at ISA or a memorable ISA experience
introduce self and explain choice of Zoom image
work as a group to put the cards together (organize/sequence them)
Debrief: How did the process of organizing the images relate to your experiences at ISA?
What does the resulting product suggest about the world? (different perspectives, interconnectedness)
Introduce one-pager/course overview
Ask students to record feedback/questions
The U.S. Department of Labor estimates that today’s learners will have . . . 10 to 14 jobs . . .by their 38th birthday.
Many of today’s college majors didn’t exist 10 years ago. What will they study 10 years from now? We are living in exponential times.
The amount of technical information is doubling every two years. By 2010, it’s predicted to double . . . every 72 hours.
We are currently preparing students for jobs and technologies that don’t yet exist . . . in order to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet.
Questions for Discussion: What stood out to you?
What does the message of the video mean to you?
How do you think you are you meant to respond?
Thurs., Aug. 27: Introduction to Global Leadership and Web 2.0
What is your concept of a global leader?
Express in a word (individually), post and discuss
Pairs create a nonlinguistic representation, share and post
Imagine Leadership video by XPLANE Six-minute video asks viewers to imagine how leadership can address some of the most pressing problems in the world, including a vibrant economy, society, and environment
Nitin Nohria and Amanda Pepper of Harvard Business School's Leadership Initiative collaborated with XPLANE to create this video in order to generate a discussion of the value and importance of leadership to address some of society's most pressing problems.
"It is my desire to inspire people of all ages and social demographics to think about leadership on a broad level, contemplate what it means to them and what individual impact they can have when it comes to leading," says Nohria
Select a sentence or short passage from the text that you would like to discuss in your group.
To start a new round, introduce your selection.
Let everyone else respond to the selection first. Then you have “the last word.”
Take turns until everyone has had the chance to introduce a sentence/passage from the essay for discussion.
Mon., Aug. 31: The Power of Social Media
Questionairre: Have you ever . . .
posted a customer review on a shopping site such as Amazon.com?
posted a comment on a news story or blog?
posted a video to the web?
posted photos on the web?
How about your parents? grandparents?
How did consumers and citizens get this kind of information in the past?
What is your usual experience with customer service phone calls?
Will Richardson tweets complaint about Orbitz, gets call from customer service
Watch the first few minutes of "Here comes learning!"
According to On the Media host Bob Garfield, we are in the midst of a new world order. In his book, The Chaos Scenario, he digs into the digital revolution that he says will devastate mass media, and make you the next mogul.
Create Wordle representations of text rendering from We Think
Clay Shirky: How social media can make history (TED Talk)
While news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, bypassing censors (however briefly). The end of top-down control of news is changing the nature of politics.
"citizen" "many to many pattern" "producer and consumer" [prosumer]
role of social media in 2008 election
Create a Wordle with students' notes from Clay Shirky
Written Conversation
Write a quote or question on your paper to get the conversation started.
Pass your paper to the next person.
Read and respond to what's on the paper.
Repeat.
When you get your own paper back, see what conversation developed from your starter.
Debrief the activity.
Social responsibility in light of globalization and the new technology landscape
Web 2.0 means anyone with internet access can contribute content to the web.
What are the implications for you? as a consumer? as a producer?
The Video Republic
A new theatre of public information has emerged, spread across the internet, television, and campaigns. This emerging Video Republic is an alternative realm of creation and exchange. Who inhabits, shapes and regulates the Video Republic and what is its future?
Video is changing young people into reporters, commentators, distributors, directors, spokesmen for their own lives, beliefs, and opinions
This is a new public realm, a virtual community, an expressive democracy . . . be a part of it.
The video republic is growing. But if it's democracy, do politicians have any business here?
If it's free speech, should everyone be able to make a video?
If it's public space, should private companies own it?
It's time to connect the energy in the video republic with the mainstream.
Four corners activity: agree, disagree, strongly agree, strongly disagree
Exit Ticket:
Social responsibility and global leadership: What is your role? How do you see your role now?
What are you thinking about after the last few classes? About Global Leadership? About Web 2.0? About how these new ways of thinking might be connected?
Video by Michael Wesch
"Web 2.0 in just under 5 minutes. [Wesch] was inspired to make this video while writing a paper about web 2.0. Struggling to find a way to put it into words, [he] decided to make this video to show it rather than tell it."
Digital text is above all…hyper.
hypertext can link
With form separated from content, users did not need to know complicated code to upload content to the web,
"There's a blog born every half second."
and it’s not just text…
two sites can “mash” data together
Who will organize all of this data?
we will
we are the web
Web 2.0 is linking people…
…people sharing, tracing, and collaborating…
We’ll need to rethink copyright, authorship, identity, ethics, aesthetics, rhetorics, governance, privacy, commerce, love, family, ourselves
Debrief video with gallery walk/chalk talk protocol - key terms each on different piece of chart paper around the room: copyright, authorship, identity, ethics, aesthetics, rhetorics, governance, privacy, commerce, love, family, ourselves
Questions for Discussion
How is the new media landscape having us re-think . . .
What will these things look like as a result of Web 2.0?
Check-in about how it's going: What's helpful and what's hard about the process of exploring possible research topics?
Fun with Internet search engines - Bing commercials
But seriously, we don't want search overload to happen to you . . .
Model questioning techniques to find the topic and question that is right for you
Partners question each other to continue process of choosing and narrowing a research focus
Fri., Sept. 25: Locating Information in the Digital Age
Debrief the search strategies and process from last class Evaluating websites for credibility-using different outlines/questions
Tues., Sept. 29: Bookmarking and Tagging to Organize Your Research
The Information Re/volution
Video by Prof. Michael Wesch
(for more from Wesch, visit his Mediated Cultures/Digital Ethnography website) "Information R/evolution" by Michael Wesch
This video explores the changes in the way we find, store, create, critique, and share information. This video was created as a conversation starter, and works especially well when brainstorming with people about the near future and the skills needed in order to harness, evaluate, and create information effectively.
The Networked Student
The Networked Student video was inspired by CCK08, a Connectivism course offered by George Siemens and Stephen Downes during fall 2008. It depicts an actual project completed by Wendy Drexler's high school students. The Networked Student concept map was inspired by Alec Couros' Networked Teacher. I hope that teachers will use it to help their colleagues, parents, and students understand networked learning in the 21st century.
Social Bookmarking in Plain English from Common Craft
Introduction to your Diigo social bookmarking account
Practice bookmarking, tagging, highlighting, and annotating using Diigo
Table of Contents
Investigate the World: Produce New Global Knowledge
Tues., Aug. 25: Shift Happens
Zoom activity (wordless picture book by Istvan Banyai)- choose a Zoom card that represents your time at ISA or a memorable ISA experience
- introduce self and explain choice of Zoom image
- work as a group to put the cards together (organize/sequence them)
Debrief: How did the process of organizing the images relate to your experiences at ISA?What does the resulting product suggest about the world? (different perspectives, interconnectedness)
Introduce one-pager/course overview
Ask students to record feedback/questions
"Did You Know? 2.0" by Karl Fisch and Scott McLeod or "Did You Know 3.0" (2008 version) or "Shift Happens" (U2 "Beautiful Day" remix) See additional resources on the Shift Happens wiki
The U.S. Department of Labor estimates that today’s learners will have . . . 10 to 14 jobs . . .by their 38th birthday.
Many of today’s college majors didn’t exist 10 years ago. What will they study 10 years from now? We are living in exponential times.
The amount of technical information is doubling every two years. By 2010, it’s predicted to double . . . every 72 hours.
We are currently preparing students for jobs and technologies that don’t yet exist . . . in order to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet.
Questions for Discussion:
What stood out to you?
What does the message of the video mean to you?
How do you think you are you meant to respond?
Thurs., Aug. 27: Introduction to Global Leadership and Web 2.0
What is your concept of a global leader?Express in a word (individually), post and discuss
Pairs create a nonlinguistic representation, share and post
Imagine Leadership video by XPLANE
Six-minute video asks viewers to imagine how leadership can address some of the most pressing problems in the world, including a vibrant economy, society, and environment
Nitin Nohria and Amanda Pepper of Harvard Business School's Leadership Initiative collaborated with XPLANE to create this video in order to generate a discussion of the value and importance of leadership to address some of society's most pressing problems.
"It is my desire to inspire people of all ages and social demographics to think about leadership on a broad level, contemplate what it means to them and what individual impact they can have when it comes to leading," says Nohria
Debrief video using Microlab protocol in triads (be sure to follow the Microlab Guidelines)
Add to word and nonlinguistic representations, share out new insights
Read cover story from Time magazine's person of the year 2006
Save the Last Word for Me
Mon., Aug. 31: The Power of Social Media
Questionairre: Have you ever . . .posted a customer review on a shopping site such as Amazon.com?
posted a comment on a news story or blog?
posted a video to the web?
posted photos on the web?
How about your parents? grandparents?
How did consumers and citizens get this kind of information in the past?
What is your usual experience with customer service phone calls?
Will Richardson tweets complaint about Orbitz, gets call from customer service
Watch the first few minutes of "Here comes learning!"
The Chaos Scenario by Bob Garfield
According to On the Media host Bob Garfield, we are in the midst of a new world order. In his book, The Chaos Scenario, he digs into the digital revolution that he says will devastate mass media, and make you the next mogul.
Additional Resource: TOTN interview, Aug. 6 2009 (Lego story starts @ 12:34)
We-think by Charles Leadbeater
(chapters 1-3 available online)
Read excerpt from pp. 3-4 of Chapter 1
Text Rendering Experience
Animation outlining the ideas in the book on YouTube here
the audience is taking to the stage . . . mass innovation . . . you are what you share
Additional Resource: Charles Leadbeater on innovation (TED)
Wed., Sept. 2: Citizen Journalism
Create Wordle representations of text rendering from We ThinkClay Shirky: How social media can make history (TED Talk)
While news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, bypassing censors (however briefly). The end of top-down control of news is changing the nature of politics.
"citizen" "many to many pattern" "producer and consumer" [prosumer]
role of social media in 2008 election
Create a Wordle with students' notes from Clay Shirky
Read How Obama Tapped Into Social Networks’ Power by David Carr, New York Times, Nov. 9, 2008
Written Conversation
Write a quote or question on your paper to get the conversation started.
Pass your paper to the next person.
Read and respond to what's on the paper.
Repeat.
When you get your own paper back, see what conversation developed from your starter.
Debrief the activity.
Additional Resource: Exhibit at the Newseum: "Old School Meets New Media in 2008 Presidential Campaign"
Fri., Sept. 4: Social Responsibility
Social responsibility in light of globalization and the new technology landscapeWeb 2.0 means anyone with internet access can contribute content to the web.
What are the implications for you? as a consumer? as a producer?
The Video Republic
A new theatre of public information has emerged, spread across the internet, television, and campaigns. This emerging Video Republic is an alternative realm of creation and exchange. Who inhabits, shapes and regulates the Video Republic and what is its future?
Video is changing young people into reporters, commentators, distributors, directors, spokesmen for their own lives, beliefs, and opinions
This is a new public realm, a virtual community, an expressive democracy . . . be a part of it.
The video republic is growing. But if it's democracy, do politicians have any business here?
If it's free speech, should everyone be able to make a video?
If it's public space, should private companies own it?
It's time to connect the energy in the video republic with the mainstream.
Four corners activity: agree, disagree, strongly agree, strongly disagree
Exit Ticket:
Social responsibility and global leadership: What is your role? How do you see your role now?
What are you thinking about after the last few classes? About Global Leadership? About Web 2.0? About how these new ways of thinking might be connected?
Wed., Sept. 9: So What? Now What?
Assignment due Friday, Oct. 16 (class time to work on it, Sept. 15)Respond to President Obama's challenge with an "I Am What I Learn" video
Or contribute a piece of writing to The National Gallery of Writing, Leadership Gallery
The Machine is Us/ing Us
Video by Michael Wesch"Web 2.0 in just under 5 minutes. [Wesch] was inspired to make this video while writing a paper about web 2.0. Struggling to find a way to put it into words, [he] decided to make this video to show it rather than tell it."
Poetic transcription of the video available here on Wesch's blog
Digital text is above all…hyper.
hypertext can link
With form separated from content, users did not need to know complicated code to upload content to the web,
"There's a blog born every half second."
and it’s not just text…
two sites can “mash” data together
Who will organize all of this data?
we will
we are the web
Web 2.0 is linking people…
…people sharing, tracing, and collaborating…
We’ll need to rethink copyright, authorship, identity, ethics, aesthetics, rhetorics, governance, privacy, commerce, love, family, ourselves
Debrief video with gallery walk/chalk talk protocol - key terms each on different piece of chart paper around the room:
copyright, authorship, identity, ethics, aesthetics, rhetorics, governance, privacy, commerce, love, family, ourselves
Questions for Discussion
How is the new media landscape having us re-think . . .
What will these things look like as a result of Web 2.0?
Fri., Sept. 11: Beginning the Research Process
Synthesize advice on the research process from various college writing textbooksUse Etherpad to create collaborative outline of Tips for Identifying your Research Topic
Tues., Sept. 15: Work on "Practice Using Your Voice" assignment
"I Am What I Learn" video or writing for Leadership GalleryHere's a response video to Obama's speech from a 9-year-old girl. It's already been viewed over 145,000 times in the first five days.
Check out the fifth-grade class that blogged during the speech using Cover It Live.
FORA.TV spot on White House 2.0: Social Media and Government Transparency
Thurs., Sept. 17: Identifying Your Research Topic/Question
Students complete Pre-Search Brainstorming ExerciseMon., Sept. 21: Digging into your Topic Ideas
Check-in about how it's going: What's helpful and what's hard about the process of exploring possible research topics?Fun with Internet search engines - Bing commercials
But seriously, we don't want search overload to happen to you . . .
Model questioning techniques to find the topic and question that is right for you
Partners question each other to continue process of choosing and narrowing a research focus
Wed., Sept. 23: Internet Research
Understanding how search engines work and using advanced search techniquesFri., Sept. 25: Locating Information in the Digital Age
Debrief the search strategies and process from last classEvaluating websites for credibility-using different outlines/questions
Tues., Sept. 29: Bookmarking and Tagging to Organize Your Research
The Information Re/volution
Video by Prof. Michael Wesch(for more from Wesch, visit his Mediated Cultures/Digital Ethnography website)
"Information R/evolution" by Michael Wesch
This video explores the changes in the way we find, store, create, critique, and share information. This video was created as a conversation starter, and works especially well when brainstorming with people about the near future and the skills needed in order to harness, evaluate, and create information effectively.
The Networked Student
The Networked Student video was inspired by CCK08, a Connectivism course offered by George Siemens and Stephen Downes during fall 2008. It depicts an actual project completed by Wendy Drexler's high school students. The Networked Student concept map was inspired by Alec Couros' Networked Teacher. I hope that teachers will use it to help their colleagues, parents, and students understand networked learning in the 21st century.Social Bookmarking in Plain English from Common Craft
Introduction to your Diigo social bookmarking account
Practice bookmarking, tagging, highlighting, and annotating using Diigo